USGS Loc. 13691, Dover LS member, Stotler LS formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wabaunsee County, Kansas (38.8° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 27.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dover Limestone Member (Stotler Limestone Formation), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• Noginskian stage is equivalent to the Virgilian stage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Fusulinid tests are common in the limestone.

Reposited in the USGS

• Strat section possibly given in Mudge and Burton, 1959, section 72, p. 200

Primary reference: M. R. Mudge, E. L. Yochelson, R. C. Douglas, H. Duncan, H. L. Strimple, M. Gordon, Jr., and D. H. Dunkle. 1962. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 323:1-213 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details

PaleoDB collection 11567: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 21.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Algae fossils are present in the limestone of this collection.
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unclassified
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Vosellina subelliptica
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Fusulinidae indet.
Fusulinidae indet. Moeller 1878
Fragments and individuals in limestone
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Promytilus sp.
Promytilus sp. Newell 1942 mussel
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer dunbari
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum sp.
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral